Next of Kin

1984

Comedy / Drama

2
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 66% · 1 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 66% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.9/10 10 1086 1.1K

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Plot summary

Twenty-three-year old Peter Foster is an only child who lives at home, where he constantly hears his parents arguing. Because Peter does nothing all day, the family goes to a clinic where a therapist videotapes them. After Peter watches his tape, he views the tape of a troubled Armenian family, who gave their only son away for adoption when they arrived in Canada. Peter decides to visit this family, and he pretends to be their son, Bedros Deryan. The Deryan family welcomes him with open arms, and Peter tries to patch up the poor relationship between George Deryan and his daughter Azah.

Director

Top cast

Atom Egoyan as Birthday Guest / Man Taking Suitcase at Airport
Arsinée Khanjian as Azah Deryan
Sirvart Fazlian as Sonya Deryan
Paul Babiak as Deryan Counsellor
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641.68 MB
1280*934
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 9 min
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English 2.0
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1 hr 9 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Mike-590

An underestimated and little known film

Atom Egoyan's first feature length film is highly unknown and even somewhat hard to find. It is really a great film though. It is about a young man who's having problems with his WASP family. While going to "video" therapy, he sees an Armenian couple who gave their son up for adoption. What follows is a remarkable film about searching for yourself and for the perfect family. Like most of Egoyan's films it is set in an unknown city and country, and he never says the family is Armenian but we learn from their culture they are. I like that fact because he lets the viewers make up their minds as to what country it is in and so forth.
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Reviewed by mjneu59 8 / 10

a promising debut

Perhaps true family ties are only possible with someone else's family; that's the premise behind writer/director Atom Egoyan's disarming feature debut. The film itself is admittedly slim, running only 72 minutes and resting on the most slender thread of a plot, in which the disenchanted only son of an alienated Anglo Saxon household 'adopts' an Armenian family by posing as their long-lost son, becoming so enriched by the experience he decides to make it a permanent arrangement. Nothing much else happens, but Egoyan fleshes out the skeletal framework with plenty of tender, funny observations, minimizing the video-age pretensions that would mark his subsequent features. In this slight, engaging fable the director exhibits all the earmarks of an embryonic talent taking his first, assured steps.

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